CHAPTER 15.—ELECTIONS. $181. Employees to have two hours in which to vote; application for leave of absence; penalty for refusing to employee such time to vote or attempting to influence vote of employee. 182. Unlawful to pay person, firm or corporation to convey voters to polling place or place of registration. 183. Unlawful for person, firm or poration to accept employment or compensation for purpose of con cor veying electors to polling place or place of registration, or to drive or be in charge of vehicles being so used. $184. Penalty for violation of two preceding sections; conveying of each elector shall constitute a separate offense. 185. Hours of voting at all elections; cities of first and second class; precincts outside incorporated cities. PART OF LAWS or 1897, CH. 129. §181. Employees to have two hours in which to vote; application for leave of absence; penalty for refusing to employee such time to vote or attempting to influence vote of employee. Any person entitled to vote at a general election in this state shall, on the day of such election, be entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in which he is then engaged or employed for a period of two hours between the time of opening and closing the polls, and such voter shall not because of so absenting himself be liable to any penalty, nor shall deduction be made, on account of such absence, from his usual salary or wages: Provided, however, That application for such leave of absence shall be made prior to the day of election. The employer may specify the hours during which said employee may absent himself as aforesaid. Any person or corporation who shall refuse to an employee the privilege hereby conferred, or shall subject an employee to a penalty or deduction of wages because of the exercise of such privileges, or who shall in any manner attempt to influence or control such voter as to how he shall vote, by offering any reward, or by threatening his discharge from employment, or otherwise intimidating him from a full and free exercise of his right to vote, or shall directly or indirectly violate the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. [G. S. 1915, § 4219.] LAWS OF 1915, CH. 213. AN ACT in relation to elections and prescribing penalty for the violation of the provisions thereof. § 182. Unlawful to pay person, firm or corporation to convey voters to polling place or place of registration. That it shall be unlawful for any candidate for any public office or for any officer or member of any state, district, county, city, ward or township committee, or of any club, organization or association designed to promote, or engaged in promoting the success or defeat of any party, or the election or defeat of any candidate for public office, or the carrying or defeat of any measure, to directly or indirectly employ or pay or furnish money for the purpose of employing or paying any person, firm or corporation to convey in hacks, carriages, automobiles or other conveyances any voter or voters to any polling place at any primary, general or other election, or for conveying any person to any place of registration for the purpose of having such voter registered. [G. S. 1915, § 4352.] § 183. Unlawful for person, firm or corporation to accept employment or compensation for purpose of conveying electors to polling place or place of registration, or to drive or be in charge of vehicles being so used. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to accept any employment or compensation from any candidate, club, or organization, or officer or member thereof, as referred to in section 1 hereof, for the purpose of conveying in any hack, carriage, automobile or other vehicle, any elector to any polling or registration place in this state for the purpose of voting or being registered, or to drive or be in charge of any hack, automobile or other vehicle being so used. [G. S. 1915, § 4353.] § 184. Penalty for violation of two preceding sections; conveying of each elector shall constitute a separate offense. Any person violating the terms of this act shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and the conveying of each and every elector so conveyed to any such polling or registration place shall constitute a separate offense. [G. S. 1915, § 4354.] LAWS OF 1909, CH. 141, AS AMENDED BY LAWS OF 1917, CH. 182. AN ACT fixing the hours of voting in all elections, and repealing section 4234 of the General Statutes of 1915. § 185. Hours of voting at all elections; cities of first and second class; precincts outside incorporated cities. That the hours of voting at all general elections, primary elections, city elections and special elections shall be from 8 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock at night, except in cities of the first and second class, in which the hours of voting shall be from 6 o'clock in the morning until 7 o'clock in the evening: Provided, however, That before the hours last herein stated shall be operative in any cities of the second class, the governing body of said cities shall have provided for such hours by ordinance duly passed and published: Provided, That the hour for the opening of the polls of any precinct lying outside of any incorporated city in this state may be fixed at an hour not earlier than 6 o'clock in the morning, by order of the county commissioners, upon the written application of the township board wherein said precinct is located. [G. S. 1915, § 4234, as amended by Laws 1917, ch. 182, § 1; Feb. 26.] CHAPTER 16.-EMPLOYMENT OFFICES $186. Employment agency not to be con- $189. Director authorized to commence ac- 190. Revocation of license by director for * See, also, Ch. 19-Free Employment Bureau and Free Employment Agencies. AN ACT relating to employment offices and agencies operated to furnish employers with persons to be engaged in manual labor, clerical, industrial, commercial, or business pursuits, and to secure employment for such described persons; prescribing penalties for the violation of this act. § 186. Employment agency not to be conducted or fee or commission charged for obtaining employment, without obtaining license from director of state free employment bureau; fee for such license; matters to be designated in such license; license and copy of act to be posted in each such agency. That no person, firm or corporation of this state shall open, operate and maintain an employment agency or office to furnish to employers persons seeking to be engaged in manual labor, clerical, industrial, commercial or business pursuits, and to secure employment for such described persons or where a fee, commission or other consideration is charged to or exacted or received from either applicants for employment or for help, without first obtaining a license for the same from the director of the state free employment bureau. The uniform fee for such license in cities of 20,000 inhabitants and over shall be twenty-five dollars per annum, and, in cities containing less than 20,000 inhabitants, ten dollars per annum. Every license shall contain a designation of the city, street and number of the building in which the licensed party conducts such employment agency. The license together with a copy of this act shall be posted in a conspicuous place in each and every employment agency. [G. S. 1915, § 5858.] Commissioner of labor and industry is ex officio director of free employment bureau, see § 165, ante. § 187. Date of termination of such licenses; payment for fractional part of year. All licenses issued after this act takes effect shall terminate on the 31st day of December of each year, and shall be paid for at the rate established in this act: Provided, however, That no license for any fractional part of the year shall be issued for any sum less than onethird of the full annual rate, and that fractional months shall be counted as full months in every case. [G. S. 1915, § 5859.] § 188. Bond to be required with each application for such license; amount and conditions of such bond. That the director of the state free employment bureau shall require with each application for a license a bond in the penal sum of five hundred dollars with one or more sureties to be approved by said director, and conditioned that the obligors will not violate any of the duties, terms, conditions, provisions or requirements of this act. [G. S. 1915, § 5860.] § 189. Director authorized to commence action on such bond by filing complaint with proper prosecuting officer. That the said director is authorized to commence action or actions on said bond or bonds in the name of the state of Kansas, by filing complaint with the attorneygeneral or other proper prosecuting officer of any violations of its conditions. [G. S. 1915, § 5861.] § 190. Revocation of license by director for violation of act; written complaint; hearing of case. That the said director is also authorized to revoke any license, whenever in his judgment, the party licensed shall have violated any of the provisions of this act: Provided, Written complaint shall have been filed with him and he shall have given the case full and fair hearing. [G. S. 1915, § 5862.] § 191. Register to be kept by each licensed agency; entries to be made in such register; register to be kept open to inspection of director, deputies, etc. That it shall be the duty of every licensed agency to keep a register in which shall be entered the name and address of every person who shall make application for help or servants, and the name and nature of such employment for which such help shall be wanted. Such register shall, at all reasonable hours be kept open to the inspection and examination of the director of the state free employment bureau and his agents, deputies or assistants. [G. S. 1915, § 5863.] § 192. Amount of registration fee that may be charged by licensed agency on filing application for employment or help; duplicate receipt to be given; contents of such receipt; fee to be returned on demand if employment or situation not obtained within three days. That where a registration fee is charged for receiving or filing applications for employment or help, said fee shall in no case, exceed the sum of one dollar, unless the salary or wages shall be more than three dollars per day, in which case a fee of not more than two dollars may be charged, for which a duplicate receipt shall be given, (one copy to be kept by the employee and the other for the employer) in which shall be stated the name and address of the applicant, the date of such application, the amount of the fee, and the nature of the work to be done or the situation to be procured. In case the said applicant shall not obtain a situation or employment through such licensed agency within three days after registration as aforesaid, then said licensed agency shall forthwith repay and return to such applicant, upon demand being made therefor, the full amount of the fee paid or delivered by said applicant to such licensed agency. [G. S. 1915, § 5864.] § 193. Licensed agency not to publish false notices or advertisements, give false information, make false promises or make false entries in register. That any licensed agency shall not publish or cause to be published any false or fraudulent notice or advertisement, or give any false information or make any false promise concerning or relating to work or employment to any one who shall apply for employment, and no licensed agency shall make false entries in the register to be kept as herein provided. [G. S. 1915, § 5865.] § 194. Duty of director, deputies, etc., to file complaint when informed of violation of act; duty of official to institute criminal proceedings. That it shall be the duty of the director of the state free employment bureau, or his deputies, agents or assistants, when informed of any violation of this act, to file a complaint of such violation with the attorney-general or with the county attorney of the county in which such violation is alleged to have occurred and it shall be the duty of the official informed to institute criminal proceedings for the enforcement of the penalties. [G. S. 1915, § 5866.] § 195. Penalty for violation of any of the provisions of this act. That any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not exceeding six months, or both such fine and imprisonment as the court may direct. [G. S. 1915, § 5867.] § 196. Moneys received by director from fees to be accounted for by him and to become part of state general fund. That all money or moneys received from fees under this act, shall be accounted for by the director of the state free employment bureau, and by him turned over to the state treasurer to become a part of the state general fund, said director to take the state treasurer's receipt for same. [G. S. 1915, § 5868.] § 197. Free employment bureaus not subject to provisions of this act. That free employment bureaus now organized or established, or which may hereafter be organized or established in this state by the director of the state free employment bureau or by charitable organizations shall not be subject to the provisions of this act. [G. S. 1915, § 5869.] CHAPTER 17.-EXPLOSIVES, STORAGE, $198. Record of sale, etc., of explosives to 199. Explosives not to be sold, given away, etc., to intoxicated or irresponsible person; negligent handling or exposing of explosives. 200. Having explosives in possession without having executed receipt deemed violation of act in like manner as disposing of same without taking receipt and making record. $201. Location of magazines or storage houses in which explosives shall be kept for sale or storage; quantity of explosives; storing of nitroglycerine. 202. Explosives mentioned in this act shall not be carried concealed or partly concealed about the person. 203. Penalties for violating preceding sections. 204. Repeal of acts in conflict herewith. *Concerning the use of dynamite and other detonating explosives in coal mines, see ch. 26, art. 4. "(b) Vendor's license, authorizing the purchase, possession, and sale of explosives or ingredients. † FEDERAL ACT CONCERNING EXPLOSIVES IN TIME OF WAR. Title of act: AN ACT to prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes. The act provides "that when the United States is at war it shall be unlawful to manufacture, distribute, store, use or possess powder, explosives, blasting supplies, or ingredients thereof, in such manner as to be detrimental to the public safety, except as in this act provided." "Small arms or shotgun cartridges" are excepted from the operation of the act. Concerning the purchase, possession, sale, etc., of explosives the act provides: (Sec. 5.) "That from and after forty days after the passage and approval of this act no person shall have in his possession or purchase, accept, receive, sell, give, barter or otherwise dispose of or procure explosives, or ingredients, except as provided in this act: Provided, That the purchase or possession of said ingredients when purchased or held in small quantities and not used or intended to be used in the manufacture of explosives are not subject to the provisions of this act: Provided further, That the superintendent, foreman, or other duly authorized employee, at a mine, quarry, or other work, may, when |